Dromore

163 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Dromore, from 19 m² to 60,694 m² (6.07 ha, 15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.

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No zone of a development plan covers Dromore in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 29 May 2026Conditional

  DEVELOPMENT AT EXISTING DAIRY FACILITY CONSISTING OF (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING SINGLE STOREY STORAGE BUILDINGS, (2) CONSTRUCTION OF 2 NO. LOADING DOCKS, (3) REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING CONCRETE RETAINING WALL ALONG THE STREAM AT THE EASTERN SITE BOUNDARY, (4) INSTALLATION OF A GROUND MOUNTED GENERATOR WITH ASSOCIATED BUNDED FUEL TANK, TRANSFORMER AND SOUND ATTENUATION BARRIER, (5) ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING STORM DRAINAGE AND (6) ERECTION OF A BOUNDARY SECURITY FENCE. THIS APPLICATION RELATES TO A DEVELOPMENT WHICH IS FOR AN ACTIVITY REQUIRING AN INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS LICENCE. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660998

• 26 May 2026N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF AN ALL-WEATHER SPORTS PITCH INCLUDING 3M WIDE FOOTPATH TO PITCH PERIMETER, (2) INSTALLATION OF 1.2M HIGH PERIMETER FENCING, (3) ERECTION OF 8 NO. 18M HIGH LIGHTING STANDARDS AND (4) CREATION OF NEW VEHICULAR ENTRANCE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2660955

• 12 Mar 2025Conditional

  CHANGE OF USE OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE FROM RESIDENTIAL TO OFFICE ACCOMMODATION FOR THE USE OF THE ADJACENT NOMADIC FOODS OPERATION AND PERMISSION FOR SITEWORKS ASSOCIATED WITH AND ANCILLARY TO THE ABOVE DEVELOPMENT TO BE RETAINED INCLUDING (1) PROVISION OF PEDESTRIAN ACCESS LINKAGES TO THE EXISTING ADJACENT NOMADIC FOODS CARPARK AND TO THE PUBLIC FOOTPATH, (2) DEMOLITION OF THE EXISTING DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, (3) ERECTION OF A TOTEM SIGN NEAR THE EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO THE PROPERTY, AND (4) PROVISION OF A PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM TO REPLACE THE EXISTING SEPTIC TANK

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2560349

• 11 Nov 2024Conditional

  DOMESTIC SHED AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO REAR OF DWELLING AND PROVISION OF FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION BY THE REPLACEMENT OF ROOF AT A HIGHER LEVEL, PROVISION OF CANOPY AT FRONT DOOR AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461806

• 4 Nov 2024Conditional

  UPGRADE WORKS TO EXISTING WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT INCLUDING REPLACEMENT TANKS, EQUIPMENT AND BUND AREA AT EXISTING DAIRY FACILITY WHICH RELATE TO A DEVELOPMENT FOR AN ACTIVITY REQUIRING AN INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS LICENCE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461763

• 29 Oct 2024N/a

  DOMESTIC SHED AND PERMISSION FOR EXTENSION TO DWELLING INCLUDING REAR EXTENSION AND PROVISION OF FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION BY THE REPLACEMENT OF ROOF AT A HIGHER LEVEL, PROVISION OF CANOPY AT FRONT DOOR AREA AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2461727

• 3 Jul 2024N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE FROM RESIDENTIAL TO OFFICE ACCOMMODATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF A FIRST-FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE TO PROVIDE ACCOMMODATION FOR THE ADJACENT NOMADIC FOODS OPERATION WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS INCLUDING ENLARGEMENT OF DRIVEWAY FOR CAR PARKING, PROVISION OF A PEDESTRIAN ACCESS, DEMOLITION OF DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE TO THE REAR OF THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, ERECTION OF A TOTEM SIGN NEAR EXISTING VEHICULAR ENTRANCE TO THE DWELLING HOUSE, AND THE PROVISION OF A PROPRIETARY WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461013

• 3 Jul 2024N/a

  SITEWORKS TO PROVIDE 48 NO. CAR PARK SPACES AND 8 NO. BICYCLE SPACES FOR THE USE OF THE EXISTING PRODUCTION & ADMINISTRATION STAFF FOR THE NOMADIC FOODS OPERATION INCLUDING ASSOCIATED STORM DRAINAGE, LIGHTING, LANDSCAPING, VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN ACCESS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2461014

• 13 May 2024N/a

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF A FIRST FLOOR EXTENSION TO THE EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE, (2) CHANGE OF USE FOR SAME FROM RESIDENTIAL TO OFFICE ACCOMMODATION FOR THE ADJACENT NOMADIC FOODS ADMINISTRATION STAFF WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS, (3) DEMOLITION OF GARAGE, (4) PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL CAR PARKING

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2460697

• 13 Feb 2024N/a

  CHANGE OF USE OF PART OF EXISTING PAROCHIAL HALL TO USE AS CHILDCARE FACILITY INCLUDING REVISIONS TO CAR-PARKING ARRANGEMENTS, PROVISION OF EXTERNAL PLAY AREA AND PROVISION OF PERCOLATION AREA TO EXISTING FOUL EFFLUENT TREATMENT SYSTEM AS WELL AS PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL WINDOW TO NORTHERN ELEVATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2450046

• 11 Oct 2023Conditional

  (1) CONSTRUCTION OF CANTEEN EXTENSION MEASURING 73.86M2 ADJOINING THE EXISTING SINGLE STOREY STRUCTURES ON THE EASTERN BOUNDARY SITE ALONG WITH EXTERNAL DECKING AREA AND (2) CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY SUPERVISORS OFFICE MEASURING 17.78M2 ADJOINING THE EXISTING STRUCTURES AT THE EASTERN BOUNDARY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2351545

• 5 Apr 2023Conditional

  INSTALLATION OF AN UNDERGROUND PRESSURISED AND GRAVITY PIPED SEWER ALONG EXISTING PUBLIC ROAD AND UNDER THE RIVER FINN FROM DROMORE NATIONAL SCHOOL TO EXISTING PUBLIC SEWER AND PUBLIC TREATMENT PLANT. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2350458

• 14 Dec 2022Conditional

  (1) DEMOLITION OF EXISTING LAB BUILDING (2) INSTALLATION OF A REPLACEMENT DETACHED PREFABRICATED SINGLE STOREY LAB ACCOMMODATION UNIT (3) INSTALLATION OF A DETACHED PREFABRICATED SINGLE STOREY OFFICE ACCOMMODATION UNIT AND CONNECTION TO EXISTING SERVICES, ALL FOR USE ANCILLARY TO THE DAIRY FACILITY

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2252000

• 5 Oct 2022N/a

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2251677

• 26 Jul 2022Conditional

  DOMESTIC GARAGE WITHIN THE CURTILAGE OF AN EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2251281

• 27 Apr 2022Conditional

  RETENTION AND COMPLETION OF AN EXTERNAL COVERED CANOPY AND PERGOLA STRUCTURE TO FACILITATE OUTDOOR SEATING AND PERMISSION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A CANOPY STRUCTURE TO FACILITATE AN EXTERNAL SERVERY AREA AND PROPOSED STAGE / BAND STAND AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Retention, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2250752

• 9 Aug 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 6.0M HIGH SCREENING BARRIER TO THE WESTERN SIDE OF EXISTING INTAKE YARD

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2151598

• 14 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION TO THE SIDE OF EXISTING DWELLING HOUSE AND CONSTRUCTION OF A DETACHED GARAGE/STORE AND ASSOCAITED SITE WORKS

  Retention · Donegal County Council, 2150665

• 7 Apr 2021Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF AN EXTENSION AND RENOVATIONS TO DWELLING HOUSE WITH CONNECTION TO EXISTING SEPTIC TANK INCLUDING ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 2150601

• 3 Dec 2020Conditional

  ERECTION OF 4 NO. SINGLE STOREY EXTENSIONS AND ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING SCHOOL CONSISTING OF: (1) SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE WEST OF THE SCHOOL COMPRISING OF NEW CLASSROOM AND ACCOMMODATION FOR STUDENTS WITH ADDITIONAL NEEDS, (2) NEW CORRIDOR LINK, (3) SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE NORTH-WEST OF THE EXISTING SCHOOL COMPRISING OF NEW CLASSROOM AND STAFF ROOM (4) A SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO THE EAST OF THE SCHOOL COMPRISING OF NEW OFFICE AND ENTRANCE LOBBY (5) INTERNAL ALTERATIONS TO THE EXISTING LAYOUT WITH EXTERNAL ELEVATIONAL CHANGES AND (6) CONNECTION TO ON-SITE SERVICES AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051852

• 7 Oct 2020Conditional

  (1) RESTORATION AND REFURBISHMENT OF FORMER CONSTABULARY BARRACKS BUILDING TO USE AS A YOUTH CLUB FACILITY / YOUTH CAFÉ. (2) THE WORKS TO INCLUDE ANY INTERNAL AND ASSOCIATED EXTERNAL AMENDMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS (3) INSTALLATION OF A SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM, PERCOLATION AREA AND ANCILLARY SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2051455

• 8 Jul 2020Unconditional

  1. CONSTRUCTION OF EXTENSION TO THE MAIN DAIRY BUILDING TO ACCOMMODATE RELOCATED AMALGAMATED AND ENLARGED CHILL ROOM STORAGE SPACE WITH ASSOCIATED ANCILLARY SPACES, DISPATCH BAYS AND YARD FOR TURNING AND REVERSING DISPATCH VEHICLES. 2. CONSTRUCTION OF STORAGE BUILDING ATTACHED TO EXISTING PAPER STORE AT SOUTHERN END OF THE SITE. 3. CONSTRUCTION OF CANOPY STRUCTURES FOR PALLET STORAGE IN NEW YARD. 4. CONSTRUCTION OF NEW ESB SUBSTATION. 5. DEMOLITION OF EXISTING DETACHED STORES, SUBSTATION & PLANT AT THE NORTHERN END OF THE SITE. 6. CONSTRUCTION OF NEW CARPARK AT NORTHERN END OF THE SITE. 7. GENERAL SITE WORKS AND BOUNDARY TREATMENT ASSOCIATED WITH THE ABOVE INCLUDING NEW AND MODIFIED VEHICULAR ENTRANCES AND RETENTION PERMISSION OF EXISTING BUILDINGS CONSISTING OF THE FOLLOWING: 1. ACCOMMODATION ANCILLARY TO THE DAIRY CONSISTING OF OFFICES, WORKSHOP, CHANGING, CANTEEN AND LABORATORY. 2. COLD STORE. 3. LOADING BAY TO EXISTING PAPER STORE. AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT AND A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT, HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED WITH THIS APPLICATION.

  Extension of duration · Donegal County Council, 2050887

• 24 May 2020Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A STORAGE SILO. THIS APPLICATION RELATES TO A DEVELOPMENT WHICH IS FOR AN ACTIVITY REQUIRING AN INDUSTRIAL EMMISSIONS LICENCE

  Permission · Donegal County Council, 2050544

• 23 Dec 2019Conditional

  CHANGE OF HOUSE TYPE FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY APPROVED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REFERENCE NO: 17/51762

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1952023

• 7 Oct 2019Conditional

  CONSTRUCTION OF A DWELLING HOUSE, DETACHED DOMESTIC GARAGE, SEPTIC TANK / SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM AND ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

  Permission, 1 home · Donegal County Council, 1951525

The 25 most recent of 37 applications.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Special Area of Conservation: River Finn SAC 002301

Recorded monuments

• DG078-042 Cist
  Description

  The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.

Architectural heritage

• Killygordon Bridge, bridge, 1780–1790 · Regional interest
  Description

  Seven-arch bridge carrying road over the River Finn and former millrace, built c. 1782, and having V-profile rubble stone cutwaters to piers to both upstream and downstream elevations rising to pedestrian refuges over at parapet level. Bridge rises from each end (south-west and north-east) to the centre. Modern concrete underpinning to base of piers. Segmental-headed arches having rubble stone voussoirs; rubble stone construction to piers and to arch barrels. Rubble stone construction to parapets and spandrels; rubble stone wing walls to either ends of parapets. Tarmacadam deck. Modern pedestrian bridge runs parallel adjacent to the south-east elevation. Located to the south\south-east of Killygordon, and to the north-east of Crossroads.

• House, 1780–1820 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached three-bay two storey house, built c. 1800, having single-bay single-storey flat-roofed canted porch projection to the central bay to front elevation (east), and with two-bay two-storey house attached to the south under the same roofline. Possible formerly in use as a mill manager’s house or mill workers house with now demolished corn, flour and tuck mill(s) that were located a short distance to the east. Single-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuilding attached to the south gable end having mono-pitched corrugated-metal roof. Pitched artificial slate roof (felt tiles?), having projecting eaves course, three rendered chimneystacks (one to either gable end and one to party wall between two dwelling), raised rendered verges to gable ends (north and south). Roughcast rendered walls over smooth rendered plinth course, and with smooth render block-and-start quoins to the corners of the front elevation (east). Flush smooth rendered sill course to the front elevation at first floor level. Square-headed window openings to the north end of the front elevation (three-bay building to the north) having painted sills, and two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows; square-headed window openings to the two-bay dwelling attached to the south having smooth rendered reveals and replacement fittings. Square-headed window openings to the rear elevation (west), one retaining six-over-three window with metal frame. Square-headed doorway to front face of porch (east) having replacement timber door and plain overlight. Square-headed doorway to the north end of the front elevation (east) of dwelling to the south having replacement door. Set back from road in own grounds to the south of Killygordon and to the north-east of Crossroads with large mature gardens to front (east and rear (west). Hedgerows to site boundaries, gateway to the east comprising a pair of cement rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having modern mild steel gate. Detached single-storey outbuilding to the rear (west) having pitched corrugated-metal roof, rubble stone walls, and square-headed openings.

• Worker's house, 1870–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Attached pair of semi-detached houses or former worker's houses, built c. 1885, having single-storey single-bay flat-roofed extension to south-east corner. Pitched natural slate roof with grey clay ridge tiles, cast-iron rainwater-goods, and with three yellow and red brick chimneystacks (one to either gable end and one to the centre). Painted brick walls (running bond) to front elevation over smooth rendered plinth course; roughcast rendered walls to rear (south) and to the side elevation (west and east). Segmental-headed window openings with smooth rendered reveals, painted brick relieving arches, stone sills, and with two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows with horizontal glazing bars. Segmental-headed door openings, offset to the outer bays to both buildings, having smooth rendered reveals, painted brick relieving arches, timber panelled doors and glazed overlights. Set back from road adjacent to Church of Ireland church (see 40839020) to the centre of Crossroads and to the south-west of Killygordon. Single-storey outbuilding to the south-west.

• Saint Anne's Church (Donaghmore), church/chapel, 1830–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding Church of Ireland church, built c. 1833, comprising three-bay nave to the east, three-stage tower to the west (on square-plan) having raised parapet over with Irish-style crenulations, and with single-bay single-storey vestry to the south-east corner. Pitched artificial slate roof to main body of building having projecting cut stone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Hipped natural slate roof to vestry. Roughcast rendered walls to main body of building over smooth rendered plinth course; roughcast rendered walls to tower with roughcast rendered buttresses (on square-plan) to the corners, cut stone stringcourses delineating stages, and with cut stone stringcourse to the base of parapet; roughcast rendered walls to vestry. Pointed-arched window openings to side elevations of nave (north and south) having cut stone sills, plain ashlar surrounds, and leaded windows with timber Y-tracery. Pointed-arched window opening to the chancel gable (east) having cut stone sill, plain ashlar surround, and with triple-light window with timber intersecting tracery and cast-iron lattice windows. Square-headed window opening to south elevation of vestry having two-over-two pane timber sliding sash window. Pointed-arched door opening to the north face of tower having plain ashlar surround, plinth blocks to base, timber panelled double-doors, and with timber panels over. Pointed-arched openings to tower at belfry level having plain ashlar surrounds and with timber louvered fittings; blind round recess to over door to tower to second stage of tower, probably a former clockface, having ashlar surround. Square-headed doorway to east elevation of vestry having stone plinth blocks to base, and with timber panelled door. Interesting interior with timber pews, carved timber pulpit, marble and brass wall monuments, including memorial to members of parish who died in World War One, and encaustic tiled floor. Set back from road in own grounds to the centre of Crossroads, and to the south-west of Killygordon. Graveyard to site with collection of mainly nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century gravemarkers of mainly upstanding type; cast-iron and wrought-iron railed enclosures to some grave plots. Roughcast rendered boundary walls with cement coping over to the road-frontage to the north, rubble stone walls and\or rendered boundary walls to other site boundaries. Gateway to the north-east comprising a pair of roughcast rendered gate piers (on square-plan) having modern metal double gates.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Dromore, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Dromore.

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Dromore with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Donegal.

Name

Dromore

Area

589,784 m² (58.98 ha, 145.74 acres)

Civil parish

Donaghmore, and its townlands

Barony

Raphoe South

Electoral division

Gleneely, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,672 people lived in 557 households in the Gleneely electoral division. 89% of households owned their home. 41% of homes were built since 2001. 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ardnagannagh, Avaltygort, Ballynacor, Ballynaman, Garrisonhill, Killygordon, Monellan

Placenames

Dromore on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.